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In an interview with Courthouse News, controversial former judge Roy Moore says an Alabama ballot initiative allowing the display of the Ten Commandments on state property – an act that got him removed from the state’s high court 15 years ago – has the support of the people because it recognizes moral values.

Updating its 2016 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center charted progress in removing Confederate symbols following the deadly white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, but the hate-group monitor also found hundreds of icons remaining with a brewing backlash.

There’s little indication from looking at it that a pillar in a cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was erected by representatives of Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II. It bears no swastika. Its inscription in German makes no mention of the Third Reich, a master race or even a message glorifying war, as the Nazis were known to do.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, filed court papers to relinquish responsibility for the maintenance of a local Confederate cemetery, in one of the latest developments in the national debate about monuments to the Confederacy and their place in modern society.